I'm not a plastic bag.

Publisher: Archaia Entertainment, 2012.

Comment : Wordless story on the enormous amount of plastic in our oceans and what it is doing to our marine life.

Mannen som gr vad som faller honom

Publisher: .., 1902-1906.

Comment : reprinted in Oskar Andersson's BSTA, Beyronds, 1976, (ISBN 91 500 0339 9). One of the world's all time greatest wordless comics -- Juhani Tolvanen

Anno's Animals

Publisher: New York : Collins 1979.

Comment : The reader is invited to find a variety of animals hidden amidst woodland scenes.

Anno's Italy

Publisher: New York : Collins 1980.

Comment : Japanese edition entitled My journey II, which is a translation of Tabi no ehon, II.

-- Summary: A pictorial presentation of rural, town, and city scenes in Italy, which contain hidden images from fine arts, religion, history, and folklore.

Anno's Journey

Publisher: Cleveland : Collins-World, 1978.

Comment : Published in 1977 under title: My journey, which is a translation of Tabi no ehon.

-- Summary: Records in drawings the author's journey through northern Europe and his impressions of the land, the people at work and play, and their art, architecture, folklore, and fairy tales.

Beyond words : a wordless comic anthology

Publisher: Winnipeg Manitoba : Karl Thomsen, 1999

Comment : 55 p. : ill. ; 28 cm. -- (Sunburn ; no. 11) -- Introduction by David A. Beronä.

Buzz and Bell, Space Cadets

Publisher: Space Cadets, Platinum Comics.

Comment : .

Early Uno Morning in Groo 116

Publisher: Marvel Comics.

Comment : Aragones frequently has wordless strips starring Groo's dog Rufferto on the back cover of all the Groo comic book series.

The Harpooner

Publisher: Oni Double Feature #12, Oni Comics, May 1999.

Louder Than Words #1-4 and collected edition

Publisher: Dark Horse Comics, 1998.

Sergio Aragones Actions Speaks #1-6 and collected edition

Publisher: Dark Horse Comics, January-June 2001.

Mad Pantomimes New York

Publisher: Warner Books, 1987 and More Mad Pantomimes, New York: Warner Books, 1988.

Viva Mad!

Publisher: New York: Signet Books, 1968

Marginalia and The Shadow Knows

Publisher: Mad Magazine, EC Comics, 1963-present.

Comment : Marginalia are the little cartoons in the margins of Mad. The Shadow Knows is the cartoon showing people interacting while their shadows show how they really feel. Many collections of Marginalia are available. Aragones' first issue of MAD, #76 (Jan 1963) includes Marginals by Aragones, as well as his two page 'A Mad Look at the U.S. Space Effort,' which is also wordless (except for the title and the usual winded Mad introduction which no one reads anyway. -- Bob Heer

Pantomine

Publisher: Dark Horse Extra, Dark Horse Comics, 1998 1999.

Comment : A strip in Dark Horse's giveaway tabloid.

Smokehouse 5

Publisher: Platinum Comics.

Space Circuits

Publisher: Space Circus #1, Dark Horse Comics, July 2000.

Comment : Back cover gag about alien juggler.

Reapers Dark Horse Presents: Aliens Platinum Edition

Publisher: Dark Horse Comics, 1992.

Comment : Reprinted from DHP Fifth Anniversary Special.

Buzz Buzz A Gogo

Publisher: Stakhano, 199?

Comment : .

Der Massenmörder : eine wirklich ueble Geschichte in 24 Bildern

Publisher: Zürich : Diogenes, 1964.

Comment : Story without words about a mass murderer

Blue Book.

Publisher: Self-Published, 2011.

Soirs de Paris

Publisher: Les Humanoides, 1989.

Comment : A wordless journey through a Paris evening through several short vignettes, drawn in an avante-garde, slick cartoonish style. Visit the lovers' capital with the right dose of irony, distance and intelligence. Bud Plant's Incredible Catalogue, Winter 1999-2000, p.52.

63, Rue de la Grange aux Belles

Publisher: Drawn & Quarterly 2:1, Autumn 1994.

Comment : Reprint of a story from Soirs de Paris.

Apple Read

Publisher: Wildstorm Summer Special, Wildstorm Productions / DC Comics, 2001.

Violence, Sex, Bunbuns

Publisher: self published, 2006.

Comment : About a homicidal/suicidal rabbit.

Carrots included

Publisher: Syndikaat, 2011.

Filipino food

Publisher: New York : Olympia Press, 1972.

Nat Turner

Publisher: Kyle Baker Publishing, 2007.

Comment : 2 Volume dramatization of the life of Nat Turner. For those unfamiliar with pre-Civil War U.S. History, Nat Turner was a slave who organized a violent rebellion in Virginia in 1831. Though it only lasted two days and eventually resulted in Turner's capture, trial, and death by hanging, the rebellion sent a shockwave through the slaveholding society.

Baby

Publisher: L'Association, 2008.

Comment: Collection Ciboulette.

Opus 69

Publisher: La Cafetiere, 2007.

Comment: Quatre courts récits, sans paroles, teintés d'érotisme. Autant d'étranges voyages oniriques et sensuels, parfois drôles, parfois cruels, à travers le corps et les désirs des femmes. Baladi est toujours au dessin pour ce deuxième ouvrage de la collection, avec cette fois la complicité du violoncelliste Brice Catherin, concertiste et compositeur de musique contemporaine.

Discoman

Publisher: Atrabile, 2007.

Comment: .

Tabloid

Publisher: Atrabile, 2002.

Comment: .

Sheepal

Publisher: Void Studios, 2007.

Il respiro e il sogno in Ken Parker #?

Publisher: Italy: Bonelli, 19??

Comment : There's a great book from the Ken Parker series (if you are looking for the best Bonelli had to offer, my vote goes to Ken Parker) by Berardi and Milazzo. It's 4 times 20 pages (4 seasons) in line and watercolor called 'Il respiro e il sogno' and it's a great virus for wanting more Parkers. -- Darko Macan

La Fugue

Publisher: la Pasteque, 2006

Le Lombric

Publisher: Editions Cornelius, October 1998

la Veneneuse

Publisher: Editions Cornelius, 2007

G.I. Joe #21, The Silent issue

Publisher: Marvel Comics, 2003.

l'Enclos

Publisher: Paris : Corn\'e9lius, 2000.

Comment : 62 p. : col. ill. ; 16 cm. -- (Collection Louise ; 3)

Mitchum #1

Publisher: Editions Cornelius. 1996

Mitchum #2

Publisher: Editions Cornelius. 1997

Comment: The only issue in this series with a minimum of text.

Mitchum #3

Publisher: Editions Cornelius. 1997

Mitchum #4

Publisher: Editions Cornelius. 1998

Mitchum #5

Publisher: Editions Cornelius. 1999

Notes pour Peplum

Publisher: Editions Cornelius. june 1998

Comment : Sketchbook companion to the book Peplum

Veuillex agreer mesdames...

Publisher: Cheval sans Tete 1:2, 1996.

Encore un exemple ou la vie est comme ca

Publisher: FRMK, 2004.

Intestine

Publisher: l'oie de cravan, Montreal Ca, 2002

Comment : see www.cam.org/~cravan

Geteilter Traum

Publisher: Edition Moderne, 2000, ISBN: 3907055330 (French cover shown)

Comment : The comic won the Max und Moritz Award for Best German language comic locally-produced. --Jochen Garcke

Alberto

Publisher: Edition Moderne, 2005

Omulan

Publisher: Romanian Cultural Institute, 2011.

Stripbook

Publisher: Les Editions Mille-Iles Itee, 1998.

Comment : French Canadian comic strip.

Stripbook #2

Publisher: Les Editions Mille-Iles Itee, 1999.

Otto Obscura.

Publisher: Forlaget Forlæns/Brun Blomst, 2011.

Comment : With "Otto Obscura" Brønserud takes the leap to a greater format - in more than one sense. The work is upgraded to a large beautiful hardcover. Honestly it is about time, because Brønseruds graphic style deserves the bigger show room that "Otto Obscura" represents..

Otto Nonchelangelo

Publisher: Zone5300, 2010.

Communication, Superstate Funnies - a sampler of UK and European comic art,

Publisher: UK: Caption, 1997.

Comment : Also available online at http://www.geocities.com/patrickbrown40/;

Comment : this story is about a possible office romance.

Love, 01: De Vos.

Publisher: Dark Dragon Books, 2012.

Comment : A foxés adventures in Winter.

War Songs

Publisher: Drugstore, 2010.

No Comment

Publisher: Drugstore, 2009.

Mais Que Fait La Police ?

Publisher: La Chose, 1999.

Comment : In sum, it's a sort of noirish story of prizefighting, two-timing, theft, revenge, murder, and corruption. Two fighters square off in the ring; one wins, one loses; the loser's lover defects to the winner; shots are fired; meanwhile, the winner's manager runs afoul of an armed thief, etc... And someone gets away with all the lettuce at the end. I say 'noirish,' but the art is notable for its near-absence of solid blacks: thin, stylized linework and open fields of white are distinguishing qualities; features are stylized in a faintly cubistic kind of way; the work is streamlined, diagrammatic, extreme. (Punches turn faces into little bursts of lines; forced angles exaggerate characters; superfluous details simply don't exist.) Lovely B&W linework w/in simple red matte covers. The most notable thing in the work is its use of ideograms for dialogue, an experiment comparable to Cartier or Avril & Petit-Roulet (as pervasive as either). Commonplace symbols, received bits of clip art, and even a few xeroxed bits of comics, end up in word balloons. There are some real surprises in the way this technique is used (to say anything else would spoil them). - -

Comment : Charles Hatfield

Wanted

Publisher: Treize Etrange, June 1999.

Cold Train

Publisher: Treize Etrange, June 1999.

Disappearer

Publisher: Coconino Press, 2006.

Critical Error, The Art of John Byrne, Vol. 1

Comment : Reprinted in color as Critical Error, Dark Horse, July 1992. The only differences are, 1) [the reprint's] in color, 2) the text piece about how the story came about, and 3) the girl is wearing a loin cloth to cover up the lower half of her body and in the original she is nude. --

Comment : Ron Atkins

Comment : A silent story originally inspired by a still from "Alien" that Byrne saw while flipping through a copy of Heavy Metal at the newsstand. Originally published in b&w in "The Art of John Byrne". For the color addition, Byrne added bikini bottoms to his previously nude mystery woman. He attributes this to not only "15 years of added puritanism" but the desire to sell more copies, and partial nudity "is apparently more-or-less okay for general consumption" (quotes are from Byrne's afterword in the back of the book).

Chapter One: Period of Mourning

Publisher: Batman #433,

Comment : part 1 of The Many Deaths of the Batman, DC Comics, May 1989. Almost wordless - has one word in the last panel. -- Darko Macan

Silent Knight

Publisher: Christmas with the Superheroes #2, DC Comics, 1989.

Comment : An Enemy Ace story.

Something so familiar

Publisher: The New Radio Comics, 2005

Last Island

Publisher: ??.

Flip in Paradise

Publisher: Paris: Rackham, 1990.

Flip - Mekong King

Publisher: Stakhano, 1993.

Flip - Sing Sing Song

Publisher: Stakhano, 1994.

Anagraphis

Publisher: Rackham, 1994

Lait Frappe

Publisher: Montreal: Oie de Cravan, 2000.

Comment : New 40 page book by Fidele Castree. Wordless. Amazing. This kid is going far. Get this now as it will be highly sought after in years to come. -- Jamie Salomon

Die Fabrik

Publisher: Reprodukt, May 2002.

Comment : See www.Reproduktcomics.de. ISBN 3-931377-72-5

The Yearning

Publisher: SLG Publishing, 2000.

Comment : Using only illustrations, Dean Chiang manages to capture powerful feelings and emotions. In his debut graphic novel, Dean Chiang makes a pwwerful statement about our inner lives and how they are just as important and far reaching as the physical world.

Maggots.

Publisher: Picturebox, 2011.

Temporama

Publisher: Nobrow, 2010.

Comment : Temporama takes place in a city where, like any concrete jungle, technology favours the privileged, and nature is quarantined like a virus. A silent picture story told during one night of primal urges and strange happenings, Temporama is a beautifully simple tale told in Clayton’s trademark bold graphic style. Clayton’s cinematic flair shines through in a tale that almost pays homage to the art house short film, a format that very often touches the realms of a fantastic reality. This is his first individual foray into the field of graphic storytelling but will certainly not be his last.

Le Port Magnifique / The Gorgeous Habour

Publisher: 2005

Comment : Art on the right hand page, (minimal) text on the left hand page. See mrclement.com

Les Souris.

Comment : Format fetishists take note: this is a story about mice (of course) told in three tall volumes with stunning production values. -- Mark Nevins

Tralalahaha.

Comment : More Clement imaginative wanderings & hard to describe the work overall.

Yeah Kou.

Publisher : Self published October 2006.

Hortus Sanitatis

Publisher: Bries, September 2000

Comment : Frigobox serie II, Volume IV

Vie et mort du heros triomphante

Publisher: Bries, 2005

Comment : Frigobox serie II

Cartoon

Publisher: --

Comment : Argentinan wordless comics

The last lonely Saturday

Publisher: Red Ink, July 2000.

Comment : see http://www.reddingk.com

Prosopopus

Publisher: Dupuis 2003

Comment : see http://www.dupuis.com for pictures. Unfortunately, the description is in French.

Plunk

Publisher: Dupuis 2007

Plunk 2

Publisher: Dupuis 2008

Plunk 3, Generation Plunk

Publisher: Dupuis 2010

No Words #2: Kira

Publisher: Bologna, Italy: Phoenix, 1999

No Words #6: Kira #2

Publisher: Bologna, Italy: Phoenix, 2000

Rabbithead

Publisher: Alternative Comics 2004

Comment : Rabbithead is a great work of comic art: Great because Dart's confident, controlled handling of the comics medium; Great because of the way her story evokes a whole gammut of emotions, everything from snorts and chuckles to drop-jawed amazement in the face of her narrative ingenuity to shock and outright disgust; Great because it deploys an essential property of the comics medium - the manipulation of time through space in ways that other cartoonists haven't pursued, to the best of my knowledge. Dart's work extends the possibilities of the medium much as Picasso's and Braque's analytical cubism extended the medium of painting, enlarging it by pointing to properties that were always part of the medium but which, for ideological reasons, previous generations had been unwilling -or unable- to acknowledge. Christopher Brayshaw, The Comics Journal

[untitled Frankenstein strip]

Publisher: Panic, EC Comics, May 1959.

Otto, 01: Blijven Roeien

Publisher: Syndikaat, 2012.

Otto, 02: Op hete kolen

Publisher: Syndikaat, 2013.

Age of Reptiles #1-4

Publisher: Dark Horse Comics, 1993-1994.

Comment: Age of Reptiles is indeed a comic for the ages, plucking at our shared reptilian memories. Ricardo Delgado's wordless narratives and saurian characters have their own eerie opacity and elegance, and the man orchestrates his pages like a maestro. The simplicity of effect and potent in-your-face kinetics meld with startling grace. Every page of Age of Reptiles throbs with an uncanny sense of life; now still and somber, suddenly dangerous and explosive, an urgent compelling and primal read for young and old. Highly recommended.

Steve Bissette

Age of Reptiles: The Hunt #1-5

Publisher: Dark Horse Comics, 1996.

Comment: With Age of Reptiles: The Hunt, Ricardo Delgado injects the frenetic rhythms and energy of a Chuck Jones Roadrunner cartoon into the sprawling majesty of his Mesosoic world. The closest thing to actual captured motion on the printed page, the abrupt lunges and pivots of Delgado's dinosaurs are enough to give you a whiplash.

... Mark Schultz

Comment: I couldn't care less aout dinosaurs, but I love Age of Reptiles: The Hunt. A fun, fast, beautifully drawn exercise in pure storytelling. Richard Delgado is way good.

... Mike Mignola

Age of Reptiles: The Journey #1-4

Publisher: Dark Horse Comics, 2010.

Comment: Dawn breaks over a sprawling forest in Cretaceous North America -- a dawn far colder than its peaceful, forest-dwelling herbivores are used to. The seasons are changing, and it's time for the able-bodied to migrate south. But the trek is a dangerous one even when massive herds band together, for while there is safety in numbers, numbers also draw attention, and the carnivores are moving in! This journey may not last long when the first hunter arrives, a ferocious tyrannosaurus rex who has her sights set on a young triceratops!.

Aline et les autres

Publisher: L'Association, 1999.

Albert et les autres

Publisher: L'Association, 2001.

Louis au ski

Publisher: Shampooing, 2005.

Fire

Publisher: Bries, 2008

Le Chateau

Publisher: Fremok, 2004

L'oud silencieux

Publisher: L'Association, Jan 1998

Comment : Part 19 in la Collection Patte de Mouche

Comment : Translated as Die schweigende Laute by Reprodukt Germany, www.reproduktcomics.de

Demontage

Publisher: Edition 52, 2004

Eiland #2

Publisher: Netherlands: Bries, 1998.

Eiland #3

Publisher: Bries, June 2000.

Comment : Most stories are without words. Some have english text.

Comment : See www.eiland.cc; www.bries.be.

Eiland #4

Publisher: Bries, December 2001.

Comment : See www.eiland.cc; www.bries.be.

Chrz

Publisher: Bries, June 2005.

Comment : See www.eiland.cc; www.bries.be.

The Silver Tip Outlaw, Rocky Lane's Black Jack #27

Publisher: Charlton Comics, May 1959.

Death Vs. Love Song

Publisher: Comic Crusader Storybook, reprinted in Ditko Collection #2, August 1986.

Comment : Mr. A story.

A Christmas Carol

Publisher: DCU Holiday Bash II, New York: DC Comics, 1998.

Comment : Sgt. Rock story.

Can of Worms

Publisher: Fantagraphics

Comment : A thinly veiled autobiographical story, Can of Worms is a silent graphic novel in the tradition of Masereel, Ward and Milton Gross. Upon discovering that she was adopted, Catherine Margaret Flaherty searches for her birth mother. She navigates between bureaucratic sleuthing and her profound need to uncover her history. The beautifully modulated visual rhythms give the narrative a uniquely understated eloquence.

Spacedog

Publisher: London UK: Andre Deutsch 1993; Germany: Rowohlt.

Antisol

Publisher: Oogachtend, 2009.

Murphy's Miserable Space Adventures

Publisher: Oogachtend, 2011

My Name is Dog

Publisher: Stakhano, 199?

Moment of Glory

Publisher: Dark Horse Maverick 2001, July 2001.

The Casualty, Last Day in Vietnam: A Memory

Publisher: Dark Horse Comics, 2000.

Comment : One of six short stories of life during war time.

story in The Spirit #?

story in Will Eisner's Quarterly.

Comment : It contrasts 2 pursuit stories told simultaneously - 1 involving cavemen, a dinosaur, the other involving 2 crooks and a cop.Naturallly, the cavemen are more civilized. -- Steven M. Bergson

Original Hot Jazz

Publisher: Stakhano, 1999

Comment : See http://www.largecow.demon.co.uk/max/hotjazz/hotjazz5.html

Citymouth

Publisher: Knockabout comics, 2000

Den Krokete Kniv

Publisher: Jippi, 2010.

Pinokkio

Publisher: Oogachtend, 2007

Comment : See http://www.oogachtend.be

A project supported by Fonds Flamand des Lettres

Een Boodschap uit de Ruimte

Publisher: Van Halewyck, 2005

Nachtdieren

Publisher: Oogachtend, 2008

Comment : See http://www.oogachtend.be

A project supported by Fonds Flamand des Lettres

Nightanimals

Publisher: Top Shelf, 2010

Comment : Lush colors, wild imagination, and rich human themes collide in the Top Shelf debut of Belgian cartoonist Brecht Evens (The Wrong Place). Night Animals is a deluxe full-color comic book containing two wordless stories, each a feast for the mind as well as the eyes. Join an innocent young girl as she becomes a woman and learns where the wild things are, then follow a rabbit-suited man as his blind date becomes the epic journey of a lifetime. These gorgeous, bewitching tales are not to be missed!

L'oeil du chat

Publisher: Seuil. 1995

Du plomb dans l'aile

Publisher: Seuil. 1996

Morte saison pour les poissons

Publisher: Seuil. 1998

No Words #3: Infierno!

Publisher: Bologna, Italy: Phoenix, 1999.

Ars Simia Naturae

Publisher: l'Oeil de Serpent, 2003

The Middle Passage : white ships/black cargo

Publisher: New York : Dial Books, 1995.

Comment : Story without words about slavery. Introduction by John Henrik Clarke.

Chi

Publisher: SLG Publishing, December 2003.

Comment : Gothic story with some cat sounds in it. See www.slavelabor.com or www.chi-jen.com

Chester 5000-XYV

Publisher: Top Shelf Productions, 2011.

Comment : 1885: An age of industrial revolution and sexual frustration. Pricilla is a woman with needs and her inventor husband is a little too busy with his experiments to keep her fully satisfied. Science to the rescue. With a few gears and springs, the proper appendages, a little lubrication and a lot of love, Chester 5000 is born. He's the perfect tool for the job... but what if Chester is more then just a machine? What are the consequences of trying to engineer love? A delight for adult readers of all stripes, Jess Fink's Top Shelf debut reads like a whimsical love-child of steampunk, silent film and erotic comics.

Echoesland

Publisher: Denoel Graphics, june 2005.

Comment : Echoesland, is a strange country which mixes the fragments of all that the XXe century leaves us like mythical images, icons and mystic situations. Truffaut, Godard, Miyazaki, Fellini, Lasted, Spiegelman, Kirby, Warhol.. and hundreds of other sacred samples of art, literature, cinema, are convened into these pages which weave between sampling and remixing of our short-term memory, the simple and exciting screen of a graphic poem full with romanticism and mischievousness. Echoesland is also a play between friends - who will recognise the most quotations, or is able to connect the most images to the names of the authors quoted in the center of the book. Echoesland is finally an hommage to Winsor McCay, of which one celebrates this year the centenary of his immortal Little Nemo in Slumberland.

Ojingogo

Publisher: Drawn and Quarterly, 2008.

Jinchalo.

Publisher: Drawn and Quarterly, 2012.

Cimes.

Publisher: FREMOK, April 2004.

La Digue

Publisher: Editions Amok, November 2001

Comment : Collections Feu, no 11

Between the Lines

Publisher: London : Methuen, 1958

Comment : 96 p. : ill. ; 19 cm. -- Captioned picture stories, and some stories without words. --The contents of this book are reproduced from Punch.

Adventure #206

Publisher: Oni Press Color Special, June 2001.

Lea

Publisher: Brussels: Enigma, 1998.

Comment : A 22 pages dumb love story (as in silent).... A mini roughly the size of the Patte de Mouches, its 22 pages present the story of a man given an ugly gift plant by his girl, and the sequence of events through which the gift ultimately brings them closer together. It's a cute little romp... in a numbered edition of 450. -- Tom Furtwangler

Tragic Relief.

Publisher: Self-Published, 2011.

Comment : Published with a grant of the Xeric Foundation

Houba! : Een liefdesgeschiedenis

Publisher: Marsu Productions, 2012.

Comment : The love history of the Marsupilami

The Saga of Rex

Publisher: Image Comics, 2010.

Comment : Some people go a long way for love. For the adorable little fox known as Rex, love takes him from his home on Earth all the way to another world entirely, one filed with imaginative creatures and crazy sci fi action and adventure, all chronicled in the upcoming 200 page graphic novel "The Saga of Rex" by creator and artist Michel Gagne.

Odi's Blog 1.0

Publisher: Dargaud, 2008.

Odi's Blog 2.0

Publisher: Dargaud, 2009.

No Words #1: Pastil

Publisher: Bologna, Italy: Phoenix, 1998.

Comment : ...the first in a new series from the Italian Phoenix featuring wordless comic albums in B&W. This is just lovely - some gorgeous pencil shading from Francesca ([1998]'s Lucca Festival starlet). -- Paul Gravett

No Words #4: Pastil #2

Publisher: Bologna, Italy: Phoenix, 1999.

Tiny Terror Tales #1

Publisher: Cerebus #42, Sept. 1982.

Tiny Terror Tales #2

Publisher: Cerebus #43, Oct. 1982.

Broken Chain

Publisher: Pre-published on the Web

Comment : See: http://houseofoctober.com/work/broken_chain/index.php

Le Complexe d'Interiorite

Publisher: la Cinquieme Couche Bruxelles BE, 2002 34 pages;

Comment : See: http://jump.to/la5ecouche.

Lopend Buffet

Publisher: Het Raadsel, Amsterdam 2003;

Comment : See: http://www.jj2003.nl/wouter.html.

Kane #5

Comment : One word in story.

He Done Her Wrong

Publisher: New York: Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc, 1930;

Comment : Reprinted by Fantagraphics, 2006. He Done Her Wrong is Milton Gross' graphic masterpiece. Sharing the over-the-top comic mayhem that was the trademark of such silent-era comedians as the Keystone Kops and Charlie Chaplin (upon whose 1928 classic THE CIRCUS Gross had reportedly worked), He Done Her Wrong's hilarious slapstick, tragic, heartbreak, heroism and villainy, high emotions and raucous thrills take place, astonishingly, without a single word of text or conversation - or even a footnote. The story follows the wild misadventures of a naive frontiersman with superhuman strength exploited by a larcenous robber baron who eventually double crosses our hero and steals his girl. The pursuit leads to New York City where a sordid cast of cantankerous salesmen, officious government bureaucrats, bumbling hospital attendants, a lushy widow with a defensive Chihuahua and one angry barber wreak more havoc than a hundred Little Rascals in a Marx Brothers movie. (backflap)

Des Bonshommes : 1r serie

Publisher: Paris : H. Simonis Empis, 1893?

Comment : 3 p., 30 leaves : ill. ; 37 cm.

Comment : -- Each leaf is a brief story without words. -- Contents: "Une Visite de Jour de l'An"; "Femme du Monde"; "L'Affaire s'Arrangera"; "Pas de Bonne Fete sans Lendemain"; "Femme Peintre"; "Pauvres Potaches"; "Mais c'est dans le Texte"; "Comment on Reveillonne"; "Monsieur Rentre Demain!"; "C'est le Printemps!"; "Le Macaroni Regulateur"; "Billet Circulaire"; "Illusions Perdues"; "Billet de Logement"; "Madame Chasse"; "Au Bal des Quat-z-arts"; "Deux Poules Vivaient en Paix"; "Un Engagement"; "Montgolfiere fin de Siecle"; "Regrets Eternels"; "Les Premiers Beaux Jours"; "Modelage"; "Pour les Pauvres, S.V.P.!"; "Les Victimes du Bal de l'Opera"; "Enfin Seuls!"; "Espoir d'Amour"; "Avant la Revue"; "Mme Beatrice, Langues Vivantes, 5 et 7, Rue de Londres"; "L'Honneur est Sauf!"; "Le Corsage de Madame ne va pas"

Des Bonshommes : 2me serie

Publisher: Paris : H. Simonis Empis, ca. 1900

Comment : 27 leaves : ill. ; 37 cm.

Comment : -- Each leaf is a brief story without words. -- Contents: "Les Menus de Madame"; "Entre Deux Eaux"; "Un Neuf de Paques"; "Un V\'e9ritable Coucher de Don Juan"; "L'émancipation de la Femme"; "Avant, Pendant et Apres le Ballet"; "La Livre de Doleur"; "Aux Ambass'"; "Le Dahomey a Paris"; "Incident d'Automne"; "Guerison Radicale en Trois Jours"; "Pendant les Chaleurs"; "Ce qu'on Appelle Se Reposer"; "Pour Plus de Suret\'"; "Comment on Rate un Riche Mariage"; "Un Match ou qui Perd Gagne"; "\'l'Architecture"; "Comment on Devient de la Ligue"; "Les Trahisons du Patin"; "Ce qu'on Fait au Vernissage"; "Marche de Nuit"; "Incompatibilité d'Humeur"; "Chez Molier"; "Tu n'as pas Trois Louis jusqu'a Demain?"

P'tites Femmes : Album Entirement Interdit

Publisher: Paris : H. Simonis Empis, 1895?

Comment : Contents: "Dis qu't'es Medecin! ou, La Double Cure" 5 p.; "Le Comble de l'Adresse" 2 p.; "Une Fille Bien Gardé" 2 p.; "Interviewée" 5 p.; "Monsieur, Madame et Messieurs Pour Dames, ou, L'école des Jaloux" 3 p.; "Il est tres bien, ton Nouveau Coiffeur"

Y a des Dames : Album en Couleurs

Publisher: Paris : H. Simonis Empis, 19??.

Comment : Most leaves have three or more drawings in sequence telling a brief story, some without words.

Comment : -- Contents: "Spiritisme"; "Les Honneurs du Pied"; "Dis moi ce que tu Chantes, je te dirais ce que tu Peins"; "Le Songe d'une Nuit d'Hiver"; "La Classe!"; "Ce qu'on ne Voit pas au Bal de l'Opera"; "Premiers Froids"; "Souvent Femmes Varient"; "Les Suites d'un Premier Lit"; "Les étrennes ou Travers les Ages"; "Une Crémaillere"; "Ce qui vient de la Flute s'en Retourne au Tambour"; "Colin-Maillard"; "Un Chien qui Rapporte"; "Veuf Consolable"; "Une Visite L'Atelier"; "Chaste et Flétri"; "Avant le Salon : Illusion d'Optique"; "Une Berceuse"

Concubins

Publisher: France: Esprit Livre, 2003.

Comment : Information online at http://celm.free.fr/

Grin and Bare It, Vol. 4

Publisher: NBM, 1999.

Comment : European sex cartoons.

Tatsoin: Monsieur Rene et mademoiselle Julie se donnent en spectacle

Publisher: John Eigrutel productions, February 1999.

Comment : Every page shows the main characters (Magician Rene and his assistant Julie) performing a magic trick, ending with the cry: Tadaaa (Tatsoin in French) .

Astro

Publisher: Image Comics, April 2006

Comment : Beautifully painted graphic novel. We follow a little crash landed astronaut on his road-movie like journey, encountering whimsical beings and events on the sides of the road, Until a cosmic finale inside a giant nautic star.

Hayseed #1

Publisher: KettleDrummer Books, November 2008

Comment : A collection of short wordless stories

Leviathan

Publisher: Editions de l'an 2, November 2003.

Comment : Story with introductions in French, English, German and Japanese about the legendary whale Leviathan. With quotes from the Bible, Moby Dick, Leviathan, The rime of the ancient mariner and others. Stories themselves completely wordless .

Fox Bunny Funny

Publisher: Top Shelf, 2007.

Comment : About a fox with an identity problem, trying to be a bunny.

Volcano Girl, Boy in my Pocket: The Billy Dogma Experience

Publisher: Top Shelf Productions, 2000.

Brutalis

Publisher: Fremok, 2003?

Comment : Fremok is the new combo of what was once Freon and Amok. This new monster from TVH is wordless and based on a dance by Karine Ponties. Can't make this shit up! -- Bart Beaty

Eyes Capades

Publisher: Measles #7, Fantagraphics Books, New Year 2001.

Q

Publisher: Oog en Blik, Amsterdam NL, 2001. 138 pages

Comment : In Q, Cees Heuvel beams us down into an Orwellian world that strangely resembles our own. What follows is a wordless play between ancient ritual and modern conventions , between black and white, up and downs, between dream and action. Between Buck Rogers and your most convoluted nightmares. Reader beware! Abandon the bonds of language, all ye who enter here... -- Backflap

Mudo

Publisher: Ediciones Sinsentido, 2003

Comment : Mudo (Dumb), Person that is not able to speak due to a big emotion. Quiet or silent person. Thing that can be express without words or sounds. That can be followed of word or sounds. Lacking of sound register.

Jerusalem

Publisher: in The New Comix Anthology ed. Comment : The story is only 6 pages (which reduced to 3 81/2 X 11 pages). Personally and as a comix scholar, I found this comic story troubling. It does have a chronological order, but I am not really sure what message(s) Holstrop was trying to send. Maybe I'm supposed to feel that way. ;)

Comment : The first image is a view of a silhouetted concentration camp (front view) from the railroad tracks. The final panel looks like a scientific institute with a smiling(?), hands on the sides of her face female Israeli soldier inset. In between are lots of images like a Middle East slideshow: the Israelis are good, the Israelis are bad, the Arabs are good and the Arabs are bad. -- Steven M. Bergson

Survival.

Publisher: Novi Kvadrat.

Comment : A lot of strips done by the Croatian Novi Kvadrat in the late 1970s were silent one or multi-pagers. The most famous at the time was Mirko Ilic's Survival written by Les Lilley (of Searchers and Tinseltown... Fame?). Some of the Novi Kvadrat members continued doing silents from time to time so Igor Kordey's Wall was recently (last couple of years) published in Heavy Metal. -- Darko Macan.

Stupid Snake Book One.

Publisher: The Cavalry Press.

Comment : Strange, lonely characters keep bumping into one another under various of bizarre circumstances: A troll under a bridge; a peculiar, desperate man; a mutated pterodactyl; the one-eyed hunter that killed his lover; an old fisherman and his lovely daughter; the drunken bum who falls for her; one mysterious dwarf and his riding-duck. Unbeknownst to any of these lost souls they’re all connected by the same common denominator – the Stupid Snake: an odd, reclusive creature in possession of godlike powers... but also ordinary stupidity.

The octopi and the ocean

Publisher: Ghostshrimp press and Top Shelf productions, January 2004.

Comment : Not entirely wordless. There is an introduction, an intersection and a conclusion in english, but the main story is wordless.

Mosquito, 152 pages

Publisher: Top Shelf, 2005

De Profundis.

Publisher: Picturebox, 2012.

Comment : an artist travels through the wilderness to an empty city. There he meets a priest who commissions him to decorate a temple.

Mjau Mjau #5-10

Publisher: Oslo: Jippi Vorlag, 1999-2002.

Comment : These Norwegian comic books are almost entirely wordless, and terrific examples of pantomime storytelling. At slightly larger than US comic book size, and 48 pp. per, each issue is filling... The featured characters appear to be anthropomorphic birds and dogs. They're really people, though, in the sense that they are seldom treated as animals. There are other character types too: horror movie monsters, a certain Lucasfilm character, angels and devils, and skeletons.

This may sound merely cute, but Jason has wit and style and a gift for stinging irony. The work is generally high-spirited, not mean or satiric, yet it can be ribald and, better yet, touching. Stories range from single-page gags to (in issue 6) a complex 20-page fable. Some of the pieces are Quiet Observations; others, Silly Gags. A few are genuine Stories and merit rereading. Both issues offer a pleasing variety of stuff.

Jason's style is wonderfully spare, and he knows how to wring an emotional payoff from really minimal, low-affect drawings. His characters do not visibly emote (at least not very often), but he can still tackle subje love, death, and grieving very effectively. The circuitous approach to feeling reminds me of Spiegelman's cartoon minimalism, but Jason's drawings are more facile, more fluid, and the work depends less on words (obviously) and more on juggling comic stereotypes. It isn't necessarily deep work, in the sense that it lacks the dimensions that words could bring, but it is charming and memorable and occasionally wickedly funny.

For people who enjoy, say, Trondheim's mute gags, or Woodring's, or something like Dorgathen's Space Dog, I think Jason's work will be very welcome. -- Charles Hatfield

Sshhhh!

Publisher: Fantagraphics, 2002.

Comment : Jason's follow-up to the acclaimed Hey Wait, a cycle of short stories that delineate an entire lifetime. And not a single word is spoken! --

You can't get there from here

Publisher: Fantagraphics, 2004.

Comment : In this original graphic novelette, Jason combines his trademark deadpan pantomime style with sardonic commentary, as two disgruntled hunchback assistants meet for lunch to grouse and kvetch about their dull jobs, while romance and horror swirl around them. (Mostly without text).

Meow, Baby

Publisher: Fantagraphics, 2006.

Comment : Most stories are wordless.

The Living and the Dead

Publisher: Fantagraphics, 2007.

Comment :

JÁi Tue Adolf Hitler

Publisher: Carabas, 2006.

Comment :

La Petite Lucy - Road Movie

Publisher: Stakhano, 1993.

Lucie Horror Picture Show

Publisher: Stakhano, 1994.

Fiesta

Publisher: treize Etrange, March 2000.

Le Front

Publisher: France Quercy a Cahors, November 2003.

Sternennachte

Publisher: Edition 52, 2004

Hieronymus B. 1997-2007.

Publisher: Bries, 2007

Monsieur Rouge entre en scene

Publisher: Petit a Petit, December 2002

Comment : Mister Red makes his appearance. See www.petitapetit.fr

Monsieur Rouge faits ses valises

Publisher: Petit a Petit, July 2003

Comment : Mister Red packs his bags. See www.petitapetit.fr

Monsieur Rouge contre docteur Slip

Publisher: Petit a Petit, May 2004

Comment : Mister Red contra Dr. Slip. See www.petitapetit.fr

Mea Culpa: Murder The American Way

Publisher: New York: Four Wall Eight Windows, 1990.

Comment : ...a fine pen and ink wordless novel in 1990, prior to Eric Drooker...

-- David Beron.

Comment : ...isn't strictly wordless, but except for two place-setting captions, all the words are inside the pictures (like the cover of Crime and Punishment or a close-up of a note). I liked it.

-- Steve Bolhafner

[untitled], Ragman #4

Publisher: DC Comics, February-March, 1977.

The Troll King

Publisher: Top Shelf Productions, 2010

Comment : .

Fish

Publisher: Kim-Rehr Productions, 2004

Comment : Originally published in Denmark in 1995. Awarded Best Graphic Novel in Denmark in 1995

La clef des champs

Publisher: L'Association, 199?

Comment : Translated as Der Schlussel zur Freiheit by Reprodukt Comics. See www.reproduktcomics.de

Six cent soixante-seize apparitions de Killofer

Publisher: L'Association, October 2002 46p.

Comment : ...isn't strictly wordless, 8 pages contain french text, the rest is wordless.

2 Sisters

Publisher: Top Shelf, 2004

Comment : A World War II spy thriller that spans both continents and centuries. From England to Spain from ancient Rome through the era of Pirates and Buccaneers, this is the backdrop for the unique tale of two sisters, their relationships and the secrets they share. Welcome to the world of shade gypsies, mysterious rockets, buried treasure, pen guns, cyanide teeth and romance.

Annemoon

Publisher: Boumaar, 2009

Comment : With art by Piet Wijn, this is a beautiful story about a little girl who is lost in magic land, wandering around with her stuffed bunny. Appealing for young and old.

See www.boumaar.nl.

Nufonia must fall

Publisher: ECW Press, 2003

Comment : Amidst the noise of the city... She is a lonely office girl. He is an out-of-work robot struggling to find his voice. Little does he know that destiny has programmed him for the greatest love story of our time. ---backflap comment

See www.ecwpress.com.

Poilala's Adventures

Publisher: Stakhano, 1995

All Different All Equal

Publisher: Stakhano, 199?

Comment : Anti-racism book for Council of Europe with stories by each creator

Contra Bellum

Publisher: Newport Beach, Calif. : Sangreal Press, 2001.

Comment : 116 leaves : ill. ; 24 cm.

Contra Mundum

Publisher: Newport Beach, Calif. : Sangreal Press, 1996.

Comment : 100 leaves : chiefly ill. ; 24 cm.

Dissections : a Treatise on Human Nature

Publisher: Newport Beach, Calif. : Sangreal Press, 1978.

Comment : 100 leaves of plates : all ill. ; 22 cm.

Dread

Publisher: Newport Beach, Calif. : The Sangreal Press, 1997.

Comment : 130 leaves : all ill. ; 23 cm.

Furor Dei

Publisher: Newport Beach, Calif. : The Sangreal Press, 1999.

Comment : 113 leaves : all ill. ; 24 cm.

Something is wrong

Publisher: Newport Beach, Calif. : Sangreal Press, 1983.

Comment : 104 leaves : all ill. ; 23 cm.

Both Ends CD-rom.

Comment : One notable artist is John Kolyer who has done a number of unusual black and white wordless books that he has on a CD as well called BOTH ENDS.

Comment : -- David Beron

How Santa Claus had a Long and Difficult Journey Delivering His Presents

Publisher: New York : Delacorte Press, 1970.

Comment : Summary: Pictures without words show Santa Claus trying to get airborne after the reindeer break away from their traces. -- "A Seymour Lawrence book."

Little Death.

Publisher: Soaring Penguin, Ltd, 2012

Comment : There’s a knock at the door. You fear the worst. It’s Little Death. But is he here for you – or your cat? Thomas Kriebaum’s little man in the black suit is the ultimate travelling salesman: all deals are final. His dissatisfaction with his vocation is the source of our amusement!.

Gutsman #1

Publisher: Amsterdam: Self published, 1994.

Comment : #1 was self-published in 1994 in an edition of 2000 copies.

See www.gutsman.nl.

Gutsman Collection

Publisher: Amsterdam: Oog & Blik, 1998-2000.

Comment : This is a collection of the first 4 wordless comics from Oog en Blik, featuring a cartoonist, and two superheroes he draws. The cartoonist loves his female creation, but she only has eyes for the mindless musclebound clod. It's very funny stuff.

-- Bart Beaty

Gutsman #2

Publisher: Amsterdam: Oog & Blik, 1996.

Gutsman #3

Publisher: Amsterdam: Oog & Blik, 1997.

Gutsman #4

Publisher: Amsterdam: Oog & Blik, 1999.

Gutsman #5

Publisher: Amsterdam: Oog & Blik, 2000.

Gutsman #6

Publisher: Amsterdam: Oog & Blik, 2001.

Gutsman #7

Publisher: Amsterdam: Oog & Blik, 2002.

Gutsman #8

Publisher: Amsterdam: Oog & Blik, 2003.

Gutsman #9

Publisher: Amsterdam: Oog & Blik, 2005.

Gutsman #10

Publisher: Amsterdam: Oog & Blik, 2007.

Roodkapje Redlux.

Publisher: Bries, 2011

Comment : The story of little red ridinghood, as told from 5 angles in 5 little books.

Foodchain, Tor #1

Publisher: New York: Epic Comics, 1993

Sticks and Stones

Publisher: Three Rivers Press, 2004.

Comment : Kuper is one of the masters of wordless comics, and his earlier works, from Metamorphosis to his recent reinvention of the Spy vs. Spy series in MAD, has showcased his fierce political wit and lushly textured, stencil-based, woodcut-inspired design sense. This allegory about the vanities of empire is both a story for children and a political commentary for their parents. A stone giant is born from a volcano and demands the fealty of the people around him. He makes them build him a stone castle; then he discovers a nearby peaceful village made entirely of wood and sets about conquering it and plundering its resources. Meanwhile, a small resistance front develops, led by a woman from the stone tribe and a boy from the wood tribe, and eventually the stone empire and its despot meet a grim fate. Kuper's narrative is beautifully constructed, from its grand sweep to its minute details. It's hard to give characters distinct personalities in a silent allegory, especially with such stylized drawing, but Kuper pulls it off by giving everyone ingeniously exaggerated body language. Almost every page is a joy to look at: even the landscape echoes the story's mood, and the spray speckles of Kuper's stencil technique become the grain of the tale's rocks and sky.

Mind's Eye: An Eye of the Beholder Collection

Publisher: New York: NBM, 2000

Comment : Funny, enlightening, and unsettling, Peter Kuper's work is never dull. Mind's Eye: An Eye of the Beholder Collection assembles his newspaper strip work and provides a more appropriate format for the puzzle-like pieces. Each consists of four small frames "seen" by a particular viewer and a fifth, larger frame pulling back to see whose eyes we were looking through before. Kuper's blocky style, reminiscent of primitive eastern European propaganda posters, perfectly captures the hidden anxieties and rare pleasures of ordinary life, especially the heightening of senses brought about by crisis. His progressive-left political slant suffuses the book, which touches on larger themes as well as the more personal.

--- Rob Lightner

Speechless

Publisher: Top Shelf Productions, 2000.

Comment : From Peter Kuper, creator of the critically acclaimed DC/Vertigo graphic novel THE SYSTEM and illustrator of Mad Magazine's SPY VS. SPY, comes a FULL-COLOR collection of over a dozen wordless strips that stare into the underbelly of our world and occasionally cough out a belly laugh. Punctuating each tale will be an array of award-winning illustrations that have found their way onto the covers of Time,Newsweek and the Village Voice, among others, and will include sketches tracking the development of the covers with commentary by the artist.

A 96-Page, Full-Color, Deluxe-Format Graphic Novel SPEECHLESS -- from Top Shelf Productions in August 2000

Chains, Gangland #1

Publisher: New York: DC Comics, June 1998,

Comment : reprinted in Gangland collection, 2000.

Spy vs. Spy, in Mad Magazine #356-present

Publisher: New York: DC Comics, 1997

Comment : Kuper took over the strip shortly before Prohias' death.

Eye of the Beholder

Publisher: New York: NBM, 1996.

Comment : Although it only had a short run at the end of 1993, Peter Kuper's wordless comics strip, Eye of the Beholder nevertheless boasts the peculiar distinction of being the first (and only) comic strip to run regularly in the New York Times. More visually ironic than laugh-out-loud funny, the strip's isolated images of city life build to ominous, silly and downright surreal visual punchlines. It continues to be syndicated to alternative newspapers.

The System #1-4, and collected edition

Publisher: DC Comics, 199?

Comment : ...it's 'silent' save for 'in context' words, a newspaper headline, signage, a missing person notice, etc. I liked it a lot, mostly for color and cinematic narrative. - Kristen L. Abbey

[story], Bleeding Heart #2.

Sound Effects, Mad #20

Publisher: EC Comics, February 1955

Comment : If you can include 'sound effects' as wordless, then I recommend reading the MAD masterpiece, Sound Effects, which contained no dialogue, but many sound effects in every single panel.

-- Ron Evry

Comment : There was a short story by Kurtzman and Wood, IIRC again, about a private eye on the case that was done with the emphasis on sound effects. It's not technically a silent story but it's a speechless one.

-- Darko Macan

Nature morte aux poissons

Publisher: in Cheval sans Tete 1:2, 1996

Ophelie et les directeurs des resources humaines

Publisher: Brussels: Freon, 2000

Comment : Eric Lambe's mostly silent new book has one or two word balloons (that say on vous ecrira = we will write you) along with some panels that have diagetic text (journal entries by some characters, and newspaper clips). In total, there are probably 5 panels that have French text. The rest is mute. -- Nick Nguyen

Combustion: A Story Without Words

Publisher: Fantagraphics, 1999

Ex Abrupto

Publisher: Les Reveurs, June 2005

De mon chien comme preuve irréfutable de l'inexistence d'un dieu omniprésent.

Publisher: 6 Pieds sous terre, 2011.

Words Don't Do It Justice in Supernatural Law #35

Publisher: Exhibit A Press, July 2002.

Kosmonaut Laika

Publisher: Edition 52, 2002

Cathy, Book 1

Publisher: Westlake Village, CA : Aircel Comics, 1991.

Comment : 47 p. : col. ill. ; 30 cm. Erotic art

-- Each opening is a series of pictures that tell a story without words, in a pinup style. -- Contents: "The Toy Store" p. 4-5 ; "Daydreaming" p. 6-7 ; "Water Logged" p. 8-9 ; "Haunted House" p. 10-11 ; "The Dentist" p. 12-13 ; "The Interview" p. 14-15 ; "The Rescue" p. 16-17 ; "Gotcha!" p. 18-19 ; "Laundry Day" p. 20-21 ; "Strip Poker" p. 22-23 ; "Shhhh!" p. 24-25 ; "The Artist" p. 26-27 ; "The Window Washer" p. 28-29 ; "The Audition" p. 30-31 ; "Gone Fishing" p. 32-33 ; "The Mouse Trap" p. 34-35 ; "A Summer Day" p. 36-37 ; "Taming the Snake" p. 38-39 ; "Yoga Class" p. 40-41 ; "The Waitress" p. 42-43 ; "Camping" p. 44-45

Nieuwe belevenissen van Cathy.

Publisher: Arboris, 1992.

Comment : Erotic art

Et C'est Comme c'a Que Je Me Suis Enruhme

Publisher: Seuil.

The Lone Gunmen: Generations in Dark Horse Extra #34

Publisher: Dark Horse Comics, April 2001

Comment : The Gunmen (from the X-Files television show) argue over Kirk Vs. Picard from Star Trek and the story told by using pictures of characters in the word balloons.

Asem

Publisher: oogachtend, 2010

Sanmao Liu Langji Xuan Ji

Publisher: 2006.

The Apocalypse in Zoom: The Academy for the Supergifted #2

Publisher: Astonish Comics, 2001

Comment : Six pages of 3-panel wordless gag strips featuring death as a character.

Liebe am Samstag

Publisher: Hannover : Fackeltraeger-Verlag, 1962.

Comment : Burgerliches Lustspiel in funf Aufzugen und einhundertsiebenundvierzig Auf- und Abtritten nebst einem Prolog / von Manfred Limmroth.

Wahre Geschichten erlogen von Loriot

Publisher: Diogenes, 1959.

[untitled story about buying beer and meeting a girl in Mexico]

Publisher: Alternative Comics #1, 2003.

Raven

Publisher: Stakhano, 199?

Desir

Publisher: Editions de la Pasteque. 2001

Comment : see www.lapasteque.com.

Van Helsings Night Off

Publisher: Top Shelf 2004.

Le Labyrinthe de Kratochvil

Publisher: l'Association.

Mystery Music

Publisher: l'Association 2006.

Mystic Sessions Vol 1

Publisher: ??, 2000.

Comment : An oversized book with 2 mixed wordless stories.

La Mort du Cycliste

Publisher: La Cinquieme Couche, 2008.

Comment : .

Manuel 123

Publisher: L'Association, 2008.

Comment : .

No Words #5: Hollywood Bau

Publisher: Bologna, Italy: Phoenix, 1998.

Heaven All Day.

Publisher: Adhouse Books, 2011.

Squeak the Mouse vol 1 and 2 New York

Publisher: Catalan.

Comment : Two volumes of Mattioli's Squeak the Mouse were published in the US by Catalan, and you can still find them occasionally. Squeak is trippy stuff, not for the faint of heart, weak of stomach, or prudish of sensibility think it's a blast. You'll never watch Tom and Jerry the same again after reading this. -- Mark Nevins

L'Arbre du penseur.

Tussen vier muren

Publisher: Oog & Blik 2003

Comment : (Between 4 walls. Original title: La Stanza)

84 pages of pencil drawings about a young couple loving each other. -- Paul van Dijken

Then and Now: A Novel as Told in 112 Original Drawings.

100.

[story in]

Publisher: Cyclope, Montreal: Zone Covective/Mille Iles, 2000.

Inside Outside Overlap

Publisher: Timeless Books, 2008.

Comment : Starring an adventure-loving magician, this whimsical and wirry tale recounts a hero's journey from the hidden murk of subconscious to the heights of potential and self-healing.

Write your own, Sugar & Spike #1, 9

Publisher: DC Comics, 1956-?

Comment : In Sugar & Spike Sheldon Mayer used to do a write-your-own comic feature in almost every issue, where the word balloons were empty. The gags made perfect sense without any words, of course. The 'write your own' pages in Sugar & Spike usually featured two unnamed characters who didn't appear in other stories, though I recall at least one with Bernie the Brain and Little Arthur, and the ones for the Rudolph books featured Rudolph or the supporting characters. --

Write your own, Rudolph the Red-nosed Reindeer.

Publisher: DC Comics, 197?

Write your own

Publisher: The Comics, Robin Snyder, December 1994.

Comment : Previously unpublished story starring Winky and Blinky (intended for Rudolph the Red-nosed Reindeer, 1978)

Way To Go

Publisher: Drawn And Quarterly, March 2004

Comment : Wordless Cartoons from Canadian Artist. Introduction and explanation in English.

South

Publisher: Little, Brown and Company, October 2008

Comment : This spinoff of the hugely popular Mutts cartoons, tells the story of a little bird that missed his brothers and sisters yearly trek to the south. He is helped on his way to find his buddies in a wonderful pencilled wordless story.

Pebble Island

Publisher: Nobrow, 2010

Comment : Far across the Atlantic Ocean lies the windswept shore of Pebble Island, a secluded place where time goes slowly, and the seasons all happen at once, where rocks on the beach are perfectly round, and TV broadcasts are limited and late. Drawing from memories of a childhood home in the Falklands, Jon McNaught uses wordless comic strips and intricate prints to form a playful study of isolation and adventure; Children gather in sprawling peat bogs where ruined military vehicles become secret bases, a fisherman settles down in his cluttered cabin to watch the Saturday night movie, and sheep thoughtfully wander the hills, grazing in the billowing grass.

Dockwood

Publisher: Nobrow, 2012

Comment : It's a cloudy Tuesday in October and the residents of Dockwood are going about their business as usual. In Elmsview Nursing Home, a kitchen porter dutifully prepares lunch for residents. Elsewhere, a council worker sweeps the fallen leaves from the pavements. Along Nettlefield Road, a paperboy is delivering his daily round. And in the trees, swallows gather noisily in preparation for their annual migration. In this bittersweet and contemplative work, Jon McNaught weaves together the everyday lives of three locals against the backdrop of autumnal transitions.

Le Rab 2000

Publisher: L'Association, 2000.

Comment : ...this year's 'free gift' to subscribers is the Rab 2000, a little 16 page hardback, in the same format and finish as Comix 2000, with a 12-page silent story, told two pages each by all six founders. -- Paul Gravett

Beyond Time and Again

Publisher: Kyle & Wheary, 1976.

Comment : Beyond Time and Again had only sound effects. This book keeps coming up as an answer to a lot of questions: first graphic novel, first hardback comic book, and now silent comic book. -- Rick Norwood

Game Over, 01: Bjork Raider

Publisher: Dupuis, 2004.

Comment : A little man on a queeste to save his princess gets killed evry attempt. --

Game Over, 02: No Problemo

Publisher: Dupuis, 2006.

Game Over, 03: O, wat schattig

Publisher: Dupuis, 2008.

Game Over, 04: Oeps.

Publisher: Dupuis, 2009.

Game Over, 05: Walking Blork

Publisher: Dupuis, 2010.

Game Over, 06: Sound of Silence.

Publisher: Dupuis, 2012.

Game Over, 07: Only for your eyes

Publisher: Dupuis, 2012.

Game Over, 08: Cold Case

Publisher: Dupuis, 2013.

3

Publisher: Cornelius, 2001

Comment :

Anywhere but here

Publisher: Fantagraphics 2005

Comment : Tori Miki is a multi-talented creator, having won awards for his essays, screenplays and manga, The comic strip series Anywhere but here is one of his greatest successes, five volumes long so far and winner of the prestigious Bunshun Manga Award. Running weekly in Japan's TV Bros, a respected magazine of television and media criticism, Anywhere but here is a wordless comic strip that could perhaps best be described as Monty Python meets the Far Side meets Zen humor. Miki's unnamed lead character (modelled after himself) orks as a bookstore owner but somehow finds himself entangled with aliens, alternate realities and other mysterious disturbances in the space-time continuum. Like Gary Larson's The Far Side, Anywhere but here can leave you scratching your head in bemusement almost as often as it makes you laugh. Backpage Fantagraphics edition.

Sin City: Silent Night

Publisher: Dark Horse Comics, 1995.

Comment : One word in story.

Arzach

Publisher: New York: Heavy Metal, 1977; Paris: Humanoides Associes, 1976; Copenhagen: Carlsen, 1989; Dark Horse, 1996.

Comment : Arzach was first published in M\'e9tal hurlant in #1-5 (1975). Album version was published in 1976. Les humano\'efdes associ\'e9s was the publisher in both cases.

-- Jean-Francois Masse

Harzack, Moebius 0

Publisher: Milwaukie, OR: Dark Dark Horse Comics, 1990.

Comment : Summary: A character urinates on the ground, and police arrive and attempt to arrest him; urine engulfs the police car and the character runs behind a large rock, where another character is defecating.

The Gold Digger

Publisher: 5 p. in Moebius 1/2 (Anaheim, CA : Graphitti Designs, 1991).

Comment : Summary: A man on the beach with a metal detector is transported into an alien presence, and gets a gold coin. Story without words, drawn in 1986 and first published in Heavy Metal, Summer 1987.

Metamorphosis, Moebius 0

Publisher: Milwaukie, OR: Dark Dark Horse Comics, 1990.

Comment : Summary: Wordless sequence in full-page panels, in the style of flip animation. A man's face and hand explode with a substance that engulfs him, hardens into a hollow egg-like object, and shatters revealing another man.

Les Reparateurs (The Repairmen)

Publisher: Casterman, September 2001.

40 Days dans le desert B

Publisher: Paris: Stardom, 1999,

Beautiful life

Publisher: Zanpano, October 2004.

Comment : Drawings by Moebius around paintings by Stephane Cattaneo, collected in a storyline.

The Worm

Publisher: London: Slab-o-Concrete and the Cartoon Art Trust, 2000.

Comment : Somewhat like Spiegelman and Sikoryak's Narrative Corpse, this jam (completed in 1991 to benefit the London Cartoon Centre) collects the work of a ton of cartoonists, most doing one panel of a script by Alan Moore. It tells the story of, let's see, a worm, a cartoonist, and the human race, up through a fanciful utopia in which comics is accorded the status of not simply Art (as we all know it Should Be) but Life Itself. Ultimately, it's all a bit over the top, but then, the concept itself--to create the World's Longest Comic Strip--is over the top anyway.

There are a lot of familiar names in the credits, as well as a great many I do not recognise; given that the work itself was done in 1991, who knows how many of these folks are still even practicing cartoonists. Art styles and abilities shift rapidly from panel to panel, but as I knew the nature of the project going in, this hodge-podge nature only added to the book's charm.

The story is itself primarily (though not exclusively) worldess... and the main character a hapless cartoonist with aspirations and talent (a cipher with whom I'm sure the cartoonists who worked on this project were able to identify much moreso than the Narrative Corpse's match man). The plot moves across time in a deliberate if neblous fashion; I enjoyed seeing what visual cues would be chosen to represent various cultures and times. The Bayeaux Tapestry and other proto/pseudo/pre-comics crop up as the history of the (comic) (art) world unfolds over the book's first three (of five) chapters.

The packaging of the book makes it a keeper, as well as an intelligent publishing decision. All of the textual material in the book is presented in English, French, and Swedish (the book project received assistance from The Swedish Council for Cultural Affairs)--that includes the (obligatory?) Neil Gaiman preface, Steve Merchant's contextual introduction, and the afterword which contains Alan Moore's initial overview of what he envisioned the story to be, dictated into a tape recorder and transcribed here. What text there is in the comic proper is included in English (visibly pasted down onto the artwork) and again in added French and Swedish captions which, while they do break up the panel compositions a bit, usually add more than they (necessarily) obscure.

To open up a book like this to three language markets is a smart move, especially since the comic's mostly wordless nature makes it a natural for international distribution. Note the similar, though much more exhaustive, treatment of the textual material in Comix 2000...

All in all, I like The Worm quite a lot. It's a clever experiment, not really a grand statement; that it strives for, and even succeeds a bit, in making any sort of Statements at all is a testament to the work which can be done by a large group of people all dedicated to a common cause.

-- Gene Kannenberg, Jr.

Tesla Time, Tom Strong's Terrific Tales #1

Publisher: America's Best Comics, January 2002.

Fresh Eggs

Publisher: Lake Isle Press, 1997.

Comment : A funny wordless comic strip about eggs.

The Collected Cartoons of Mordillo.

Cartoons Opus I.

Publisher: Glenat.

Cartoons Opus II.

Publisher: Glenat.

Cartoons Opus III.

Publisher: Glenat.

Cartoons Opus IV.

Publisher: Glenat.

Crazy Crazy.

Comment : Many albums/books of beautifully drawn and coloured strip-cartoons from the early 1970s onwards. -- Andy Konky Kru

Love Story

Publisher: Grenoble : Gl\'e9nat, 1985. -- 72 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 33 cm.

Les Meilleurs Dessins d'Opus Mordillo.

Publisher: Paris : Editions J'ai Lu, 1987.

Les Chiens

Publisher: Vents d'Ouest. 1997

Comment : Every left page has a small french text, every right page a cartoon.

Football.

Publisher: Glenat, May 1998.

Toutes les Girafes.

Publisher: Glenat.